Mojave

The Mojave language was traditionally spoken along the Colorado River from Black Canyon in the north through the Mohave Valley and into the Chemehuevi Valley to the south. Beginning in the nineteenth century, Mojave expanded along the Colorado River to the present-day towns of Blythe, California and Ehrenberg, Arizona. In pre-contact times, there were an estimated 3000 speakers (Kroeber 1925). Today, there are fewer than 100 first-language speakers (Golla 2011).